In this paper we explore the composition of students, the study length towards diploma, and examine the likelihood of … diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been …

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to …

We study Pareto optimal tax and education policies when human capital upon labor market entry is endogenous and … individuals face wage uncertainty. Though optimal labor distortions are history-dependent, i.e. depend on income and education …-contingent loans. To take themodel to the (US) data, we simplify the model to a binary education decision (graduating from college or …

-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational … the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the …

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to …

. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in education at the time the test is taken reduces their role in accounting … for the wage gaps. We also consider evidence on parental and child expectations about education and on stereotype …